Thanks to Karl Phillips we have yet another look at radio in the Big Apple. This time it goes back to ‘73 and it is an excellent cross-section of AM and FM stations and includes all the big ones.
Included in this composite:
Jonathan Schwartz on WNEW-FM (Begins with a skit called “Nixon Confesses”)
WPLJ
Walt “Baby” Love on WXLO
Norm ‘N’ Nite on WCBS-FM
Jim Quinn on WPIX-FM
WBLS-FM
WWRL-AM 1600
Sean Casey on WWDJ 970
Cousin Brucie on WABC
then more WPIX-FM & WABC till the end.
This is not a long aircheck but at about 14 1/2 minutes, it’s packed with the best of ‘73
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That is Don K Reed in for Norm N Nite
Wonderful aircheck. Good times for New York.
I also noticed Don K. Reed on the WCBS-FM segment.
The WNEW bit with Nixon is hilarious. It is lifted directly from a wonderful, National Lampoon album issued at that time and entitled, “The Missing White House Tapes.” There is even more on that album, which is entirely focused around the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Some of the contributing writers on the Lampoon album would go on to fame on Saturday Night LIVE when that started up a couple of years later. Good Stuff!
I.I.N.M., Gaylord Avery, a CBS staff announcer (famous for not only being heard on the syndicated opening titles for “The Honeymooners” but also opening announcer for many years for Channel 2 News), was the newsman on the WCBS-FM segment. Also interesting that Crazy Eddie’s started out with a different announcer than Dr. Jerry – but it was probably from its airing their commercials on WPIX-FM that that came to be.
What happened to Jim Quinn? Why did he turn into such a rabid r-wing a-hole?